Across all health care settings, certain patients are perceived as ‘difficult’ by clinicians. This paper’s aim is to understand how certain patients come to be perceived and labelled as ‘difficult’ patients in community mental health care, through mixed-methods research in The Netherlands between June …

AIM: This paper is a report of the development and testing of the psychometric properties of an instrument to measure the accuracy of nursing documentation in general hospitals. BACKGROUND: Little information is available about the accuracy of nursing documentation. None of the existing instruments that …

De behoefte aan en het ontbreken van een gevalideerde psychomotorische (PMT) observatielijst, gericht op algemene diagnostiek in de volwassenenpsychiatrie, hebben geleid tot dit onderzoek en tot de constructie van een dergelijke lijst. De volgende vragen hebben hierbij centraal gestaan: Welke PMT-observatie-items …

INTRODUCTION: The problem of inconsistent terminology in functional capacity evaluation (FCE) has been widely addressed in the international literature. Many different terms seem to be used interchangeably while other terms appear to be interpreted differently. This may seriously hinder FCE research …